- [Instructor] Scripts you download…or develop over time, are often a mess.…There's a lot going on that can make it difficult…to quickly see what's happening and debug.…In this video, we'll look at some of the ways…you can organize your scripts and make them easier,…for you or anyone else to use effectively.…If you open the exercise file,…you can see it's now calculating completely without error.…A first step in figuring out how to organize…this script effectively, is to determine…what's happening where.…We can do this by visualizing components using preview,…hovering over outputs to see the data structure,…and using text boxes to visualize the data.…

If I start from left to right,…I can turn off the components that are being visualized.…And see that the output for this section of the script…are the two surfaces, front and back.…I can see the output for this area above the surfaces…are a set of 2D curves that are being generated…as the original Voronoi pattern.…So I'll separate this section out.…I'll turn the preview off for these two areas.…

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3/5/2018

Grasshopper is a powerful visual programming plugin for Rhino, but the most effective design patterns within Grasshopper remain inaccessible to a majority of architectural designers. This course attempts to correct that gap. Watch and learn how to use Grasshopper scripts to create a variety of prototypes that can test concepts, predict costs, and help in the architectural proposal process. Instructor Walter Zesk shows how to use existing scripts, adapt and repair scripts, and design new scripts from scratch, focusing on a modular, component-based designs that can accept a variety of inputs. The course closes with some best practices for running prototypes, collecting data, and sharing your prototypes with colleagues.